problem of Amazon smart locker

The Amazon Smart Locker, now a retail site in many Sacramento areas, allows online shoppers to collect parcels in a secure environment and block the activities of parcel thieves in the porch. This smart locker in Sacramento's Safeway began this fall at the retail site in the Sacramento area, allowing online shoppers to retrieve Amazon orders in a secure environment and prevent future parcel thefts. But some Amazon users have found that a large number of holiday packages sometimes mean that the bright yellow lockers are full, allowing shoppers to choose to send packages at home or elsewhere. The number of Amazonian lockers owned by retailers in the Sacramento region, including 7-Eleven, Safeway, Spirit and Circle K Amazon has bragged about lockers as a safer way to deliver, without any parcels unattended at the front porch, roaming thieves Temptation, also known as "porch pirate." Even so, in September, Amazon officials privately admitted that during the holiday season, the number of online orders may exceed the locker's available space, which the company said plans to monitor the situation. Amazon spokesman Jim Billimoria said there were about 40 lockers in the Sacramento area. The Seattle-based retailer says there are no numbers to show how many customers are locked out of Amazon Locker deliveries. However, he did note: "We handled a lot of orders." On Monday, 2015, Billimoria said that Amazon's customers ordered more than 54 million items worldwide, which is equivalent to a record of 629 pieces / And even more busy this year, according to Adobe Digital Insights data, the United States on Monday the total online sales reached a record $ 3.45 billion, an increase of 12% over 2015. Billimoria said that the retail giant recently upgraded billing system, Customers in the Amazon Online Checkout page had to go through the list of local lockers one by one to determine if there was any available space. Amazon.com shoppers chose what they wanted to do. The locker is delivered at checkout. When the package arrives, the customer receives the e-mail with the code and text messages to retrieve its order. Locally, most lockers are in the Safeway market, but 7-Eleven, Sprint Stores and Circle K. Officials earlier this year noted that the program was in its early stages and could expand over time along the route, with the number of lockers in the Sacramento area almost flat over the past few months Doubled.